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Can't comment specifically on this or that "dying company", but it is a bit disappointing that after, how many, four decades of open source? and the obvious utility of that paradig…

> thousands of other people who dedicate their lives to the topic to make it plain to you, there were thousands of slave traders who dedicated their lives to the topic, including e…

Honestly the current content is not doing the platform any favors. Who wants another social media option that ranges from the inane to the toxic? Reddit like forums, open source se…

I don't think Zuck particularly cares about the next big thing. As the debacle with Apple shows, there are existential risks here and now, not in some sort of FOMO Despite appearan…

its quite depressing but it applies to much of corporate structure and incentives. how much more performance can you squeeze from an individual that: i) is not intrinsic to who the…

He more than did his job. But who is the Doug Engelbart of today? Where are the people that can articulate an actually desirable digital future and rally everybody (including those…

I had not doubt it will be downvoted. Techbros out in force. If its good for my pocket, suck it up, its good for you. But we are having enough of it.

SVB didn't have a chief risk officer. Why have somebody bang theoretically about risks when the business is best placed to assess the real risk /sarcasm

> you can’t stop progress what is your definition of "progress"

> Microsoft is very aware thanks, that is comforting > the cat is out of the bag even if you don't like it thanks for bullying us around > the legitimately talented AI thinkers who…

Would be interesting to every once in a while test "Using Linux without a network connection" (as in: install everything from usb/media and check all your workflows)

Well said. While its good to surface the challenges diverse people face and hopefully think about patterns that will solve them in efficient, systemic ways, the availability of Sig…

people will once again try to defend the indefensible. antediluvian fractional reserve banking as it currently stands is not fit-for-purpose and the price paid by society is high a…

Its possible. Its called sovereign money. You basically have an account with the central bank just like private banks do (but they dont want anybody else to have) These accounts pa…

> There’s nothing I should have to do to maintain my claim on my bank account. Thats a wrong statement. You are thinking of money as a public good and thats how it should be, but t…

They'll be recycled soon enough like the Lehmann guy. There is a talent shortage in the industry.

If I interpret the action correctly the Fed just granted all banks a giant put option to place any government securities at par for cash whenever interest rates move against them T…

Dude, a depositor provides funds. Might get them back with interest, or not. Thats not the definition of a customer, thats the definition of an investor. The fact that it is suppos…

The business model that Shoshana Zuboff termed surveillance capitalism did not just ruin the internet but undermined the future of the entire tech industry. Tech is far, far more t…

"Visible to the naked eye" is increasingly a fuzzy statement ranging from magnitude 4.0 to 6.0+[0]: Light pollution means that in the environments where most of humanity lives we c…

Even if its not the "precise" moment, in the scheme of things does perfect timing really matter? Fact is, this shows beautifully that significant new algorithmic capability is beco…

thanks for the pointer, though from a quickscan this is not really a music theory tool but more like supercollider in rust?

Its a very cool project but as I have seen some other cool efforts as well, I feel that the domain of "open source computer-assisted music theory tools" is quite fragmented and peo…

how did it come to pass that the more concentrated a sector the better? the exact opposite is true. excessive concentration means an oligopolistic or oligopsonistic sector that is …

> Touting “SVB’s deep understanding of the markets it serves, our *strong* risk management practices” (Emphasis mine). According to other news [0] they did not have a formally appo…